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Why is the cop at the party at the end?


You're not telling me a cop is of high society, are you? Aren't all members of society the elite of the elite? If so, a man making 30-50k a year doesn't fall in that bracket, does he and if he did, would he not be shunned from society as being an inferior who didn't meet his born into potential? Just curious.

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I thought it was odd as well but maybe high society has paid the police force off?

Another explanation is that he was there to capture Bill. I didn't see the cop during the orgy as he was patrolling the grounds outside. Maybe he isn't in the know as to what exactly is going on inside.

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Look at it from a Marxist, leftist or conflict criminological POV: the law is but a tool that the ruling classes use to keep the rest in a disadvantaged position. He's a cop. The police (and military) are nothing but tools that the elite use to subjugate the lower classes. Cops protect the interests of the upper classes. The elite make the laws to marginalize the lower classes. You get the gist.

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Nice. Why would you have to look at it from a leftist/Marxist point of view? Communists nations use their police/military as a strongarm against their own people as much (if not much more) than others. Try to smoke weed in China and have the "Peoples" army put you to death.

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In reply to a much older post:
I never said communist nations don't use the instruments of the state against its own people. A core tenet of many, if not most, leftist philosophies is the idea of class struggle. The point I was making is that the law, as it is in most countries, is not much more than a tool of the ruling classes, which is what I originally stated. Of course "communist" nations use the tools of the state, including the law, the judiciary, the police, and the military, against their own citizenry. Communist nations feature as much, if not more, class stratification as non-communist nations (which is why many people argue that such nations should not even be labeled or considered communist; North Korea is a prime example).

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